Feeding The Beast

I don’t want to go back to social media:

When you become a DAU (Daily Active User), you give up a lot of your time and energy to Twitter. Keeping up with your feed and your notifications becomes a compulsion. Your schedule almost revolves around it. What I’ve found after quitting Twitter is that in some sense I have my life back. I feel less hurried. I can spend hours focusing on some activity without needing a break to check Twitter. I set my own agenda, according to my own interests, as opposed to my Twitter feed setting my agenda, according to the interests of my following. I suppose that I’m doing less following now and more leading, or at least self-guiding.

This, for me, was the biggest issue with not just Twitter but Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks — they’ve been designed to keep you visiting, scrolling, refreshing, liking, replying and sharing.